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Spring and Summertime abound with Medieval Festivals in Tuscany, another fascinating reason to get around our beutiful land. Taverns, old games, fire-eaters, knights and ladies, parades and flag-flyers animate bigger and smaller towns and villages. Here’s a list for late Spring and Summer 2016. MAY Serre di Rapolano (Siena) –…

Look at this picture of men whose faces are covered by wired cowls, in the darkness lighted up by torches: guess where we took it. In Sicily? In Andalucia? Actually, this style of Easter Week processions are typical of Southern Italy and Spain, but in this case, we didn’t have…

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